multicaudata vs multicaudatus

[Doug Yanega]

Norbert Kondla wrote:

>I
>certainly support vigorous efforts to bring the code into the twenty first
>century by replacing the current provisions with an "original useage"
>clause.  In the interim, it is my choice to respect the rules as best I can,
>with full recognition that errors will result due to not being a Latin
>scholar. Readers who get paid to do taxonomy please take heed, show some
>positive leadership, do your jobs and get cracking on getting that code
>changed.

Readers who get paid to do taxonomy? That's what - two or three people
here? I'm with you on this Code stuff, I even do taxonomy, but that's not
what I'm paid for, and fighting for Code changes is pretty hopeless (I've
tried). Taking on the ICZN Old Guard is like attacking a Panzer with a BB
gun.

Peace,


Doug Yanega        Dept. of Entomology         Entomology Research Museum
Univ. of California - Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521
phone: (909) 787-4315 (standard disclaimer: opinions are mine, not UCR's)
           http://entmuseum9.ucr.edu/staff/yanega.html
  "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness
        is the true method" - Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chap. 82



 
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